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Monique and the Mango Rains

<Div>Monique Dembele saves lives and dispenses hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Her unquenchable passion to improve the lot of the women and children in her West African village is matched by her buoyant humour in the face of unhappy marriage and backbreaking work. This is the deeply compelling story of the rare friendship between a young development volunteer and this midwife who defies tradition and becomes - too early in her own life - a legend.</div>

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  • "Persoonlijk relaas van een Amerikaanse vrijwilligster die in een dorp in Mali enkele jaren werkte als assistente van de plaatselijke verpleegster/vroedvrouw."
  • "<Div>Monique Dembele saves lives and dispenses hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Her unquenchable passion to improve the lot of the women and children in her West African village is matched by her buoyant humour in the face of unhappy marriage and backbreaking work. This is the deeply compelling story of the rare friendship between a young development volunteer and this midwife who defies tradition and becomes - too early in her own life - a legend.</div>"@en
  • ""Story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer [Holloway] and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This book tells of her unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work. Monique's buoyant humor and willingness to defy tradition were uniquely hers. In the course of this deeply personal narrative, as readers immerse themselves in the rhythms of West African village life, they come to know Monique as friend, mother, and inspired woman." -- P. [4] pf cover."
  • ""This tender, revelatory memoir recalls the two years Holloway spent as an impressionable Peace Corps volunteer in the remote village of Nampossela in Mali, West Africa. It centers on her close friendship with Monique, the village's overburdened midwife. When Holloway (now a nonprofit development specialist) arrived in Nampossela in 1989, she was 22; Monique was only two years her senior. Yet Monique, barely educated, working without electricity, running water, ambulances or emergency rooms, was solely responsible for all births in her village, tending malnourished and overworked pregnant women in her makeshift birthing clinic. With one of the highest rates of maternal death in the world, these Malian women sometimes had to work right up until and directly after giving birth and had no means of contraception. Holloway especially noted Monique's status as an underpaid female whose male family members routinely claimed much of her pay. Monique shared her emotional life with Holloway, who in turn campaigned for her rights at work and raised funds for her struggling clinic. Holloway's moving account vividly presents the tragic consequences of inadequate prenatal and infant health care in the developing world and wi."

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  • "莫妮卡的芒果雨"
  • "Monique and the mango rains"
  • "Mo ni ka de mang guo yu"
  • "Monika de mang guo yu = Monique and the mango rains : two years with a midwife in Mali"
  • "Monique and the Mango Rains"@en
  • "Monika de mang guo yu"
  • "Monique and the mango rains two years with a midwife in Mali"@en
  • "莫妮卡的芒果雨 = Monique and the mango rains"
  • "Monique and the mango rains two years with a midwife in Mali"
  • "Monika de mang guo yu = Monique and the mango rains"
  • "Monique and the mango rains : the extraordinary story of friendship in a midwife's house in Mali"@en
  • "Monique and the mango rains : two years with a midwife in Mali"@en
  • "Monique and the mango rains : two years with a midwife in Mali"
  • "Monique en de mangoregens : het leven van een vroedvrouw in Mali"
  • "Monique en de mangoregens"
  • "Mo ni ke de mang guo yu"
  • "莫妮卡的芒果雨 = Monique and the mango rains : two years with a midwife in Mali"
  • "莫妮克的芒果雨"

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